Wednesday, April 10, 2013

7:54 AM

Speaker Pro Tempore Bill Kramer acknowledged he walked out
of the Assembly chamber during the address, saying it was disingenuous for
Thayer to be “talking about collaboration but continually telling us everything
we did wrong.”

“To talk about how important a pristine environment is when
the Bad River Band is the worst polluter in the country?” Kramer said. “That
sounds like they’re talking out of both sides of their mouth.”

Kramer, R-Waukesha, added he believes he’s the only
legislative member who belongs to a tribe -- the Red Cliff Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa.

“I don’t think my walking out was any more disrespectful to
the speaker than the speech was disrespectful to us,” he said.